Heinrich Daniel Matthias Mohr

Daniel Matthias Heinrich Mohr ( born April 8, 1780 in Quickborn, Pinneberg, Schleswig -Holstein, † August 26, 1808 in Kiel ) was a German naturalist. Its official botanical author abbreviation is " D. Mohr ".

Life

Daniel Matthias Heinrich Mohr was the son of the pastor Matthias Mohr (1743-1789) and his wife Christina Sophia Ulrica (1752-1785) was born. His paternal grandparents were the brewer and distiller Matthias ( Ties) Mohr and his wife Elizabeth, mother of Councilor and steward Sebastian Daniel Gerckens and his wife Anna Margaretha. Henry, like his nickname was remained unmarried.

At age 19 he began after his Primanerzeit in Husum in 1799 his studies in Kiel. In 1801 he moved to the University of Göttingen. In Kiel he heard the zoological lectures by Johann Christian Fabricius, in Göttingen at the botanical Heinrich Adolf Schrader ( 1767-1836 ). After returning to Kiel, he was on November 12, 1803 with a thesis on cryptogams Dr. phil. doctorate and continued his studies on algae and mosses away then. It was 1805 Adjunct Faculty of Philosophy, Christiana Albertina Kiel and extraordinary on March 20, 1807 Professor of Zoology and Botany. In Kiel he met with Friedrich Weber (1781-1823), the son of the physician and professor of medicine Georg Heinrich Weber, together. In the Botanical Garden Kiel both Friedrich Weber and Heinrich Mohr know botanical basics learned. Friedrich was founded in 1810, two years after Mohr's death, overseer of the botanical garden.

Ehrentaxon

Heinrich Mohr presented in honor of the Linnean students Olof Swartz in 1806 the genus Mohria in the fern family Schizaeaceae on.